Thailand Handbook

Thailand Handbook
Title Thailand Handbook PDF eBook
Author Andrew Spooner
Publisher Footprint Handbooks
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Travel
ISBN 9781907263538

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Jam-packed with information on Thailand's rich culture, Footprint's 8th edition Handbook will help you make the most of this awe-inspiring destination.

Thailand

Thailand
Title Thailand PDF eBook
Author Andrew Spooner
Publisher Footprint Handbooks
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Thailand
ISBN 9781906098667

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Travel guide to Thailand

Bangkok Beat

Bangkok Beat
Title Bangkok Beat PDF eBook
Author Kevin Cummings
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 2015-06-08
Genre
ISBN 9780692396452

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Bangkok Beat is a compilation of short stories, interviews, literature reviews and author profiles, plus the previously unpublished history and pictures of the iconic Bangkok cabaret nightclub, Checkinn99 located on Sukhumvit Road. In reading Bangkok Beat you will get up close with many well-known and not so well-known expats and characters staying in Thailand and Southeast Asia. You'll also find a section of noir poems by John Gartland, in which the author depicts life in the city's dark zone. Between the covers of Bangkok Beat you will get to know: champion male and female Muay Thai boxers, a surfing historian, a legendary mamasan, Chris Coles - noted expressionist artist of the Bangkok night, and a gold chain snatching ladyboy. You'll also encounter the inside of Baccara Bar on Soi Cowboy, an Australian front man for a Khmer band, a smiling waitress named Mook, a spirit house for a Hollywood screenwriter and producer, and the biographer for Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix. Plus world class musicians including Jason Mraz. In addition you'll find interviews and profiles of many well known novelists living in and writing about Thailand and Southeast Asia. (Contains 54 black and white photographs.) This book of non-fiction is ably assisted with an introduction by Bangkok pulp fiction author, James A. Newman, a short story by T Hunt Locke titled The Beauty of Isaan and a chapter of noir verse written by the poet noir, John Gartland. Many of the 54 black and white photographs found in Bangkok Beat were taken by professional photographers Eric Nelson, Alasdair McLeod, and Jonathan van Smit. There are a variety of interesting tales chronicled in words and pictures in Bangkok Beat.

Footprint Thailand

Footprint Thailand
Title Footprint Thailand PDF eBook
Author Andrew Spooner
Publisher Footprint Handbooks
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Thailand
ISBN 9781904777946

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The essential travel guide to Thailand for adventurous, free-spirited travellers, from the golden Buddhas of Bangkok to the sandy beaches and full moon parties in the south.

The Books in My Life

The Books in My Life
Title The Books in My Life PDF eBook
Author Henry Miller
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 324
Release 1969
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780811201087

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In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.

Thailand

Thailand
Title Thailand PDF eBook
Author Phil Macdonald
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 404
Release 2009
Genre Travel
ISBN 9781426204081

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Combining in-depth information with high quality maps and photographs, this guide features detailed descriptions of major cultural, architectural and historical sites and includes commissioned walks and drives, plus regional and city maps. Places of interest are also highlighted on the maps.

The Buddha's Footprint

The Buddha's Footprint
Title The Buddha's Footprint PDF eBook
Author Johan Elverskog
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 192
Release 2020-02-21
Genre History
ISBN 0812251830

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A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religion In the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name given to Buddhist teachings by Buddhists, states that all things are interconnected. Therefore, Buddhists are perceived as extending compassion beyond people and animals to include plants and the earth itself out of a concern for the total living environment. In The Buddha's Footprint, Johan Elverskog contends that only by jettisoning this contemporary image of Buddhism as a purely ascetic and apolitical tradition of contemplation can we see the true nature of the Dharma. According to Elverskog, Buddhism is, in fact, an expansive religious and political system premised on generating wealth through the exploitation of natural resources. Elverskog surveys the expansion of Buddhism across Asia in the period between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, when Buddhist institutions were built from Iran and Azerbaijan in the west, to Kazakhstan and Siberia in the north, Japan in the east, and Sri Lanka and Indonesia in the south. He examines the prosperity theology at the heart of the Dharma that declared riches to be a sign of good karma and the means by which spritiual status could be elevated through donations bequeathed to Buddhist institutions. He demonstrates how this scriptural tradition propelled Buddhists to seek wealth and power across Asia and to exploit both the people and the environment. Elverskog shows the ways in which Buddhist expansion not only entailed the displacement of local gods and myths with those of the Dharma—as was the case with Christianity and Islam—but also involved fundamentally transforming earlier social and political structures and networks of economic exchange. The Buddha's Footprint argues that the institutionalization of the Dharma was intimately connected to agricultural expansion, resource extraction, deforestation, urbanization, and the monumentalization of Buddhism itself.